* Believed to be rapidly increasing in numbers (on a percentage basis)

World status

The 1999 Catholic Almanac reports that there are 61.5 million Catholics in the
U.S.; they comprise 22.7% of the population. This makes the United States the third
largest Roman Catholic country in the world, after Brazil and Mexico. These numbers are
probably inflated, relative to most Protestant and other religious groups because the
Catholic church counts as members everyone who has been baptized into the faith.

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